the members of her church contributed rio heard her in Paris that spring composer Sibelius who said when she
Marian Anderson considered by
nickels and dimes to a Marion and immediately signed her to an sang in his studio The roof of my
Arturo Toscanini Jan Sibelius and
Andersons Future Fund which American concert tour She made her house is too low for your voice
other music masters to be todays current tour of the
helped finance her first year of for first appearance under Huroks direction Miss Andersons
finest contralto is scheduled to in New Yorks Town Hall Caribbean and Central America is
mal training
present two concerts in Aruba Friends raised a second fund which Dec 30 1935 and was so successful being undertaken in honor of Queen

later this month helped pay for a year of study with she was forced to give a popular Elizabeths visit to Jamaica She is

If plans now being made are successfully the late Giuseppe Boghetti who demand concert 30 days later in also scheduled to sing at Curacao

completed she will sing in trained her for a contest which she Carnegie Hall Haiti the Dominican Republic Gua

the Esso Club Theatre the night of won in 1926 from 300 contestants Since then Miss Anderson has spent temala San Salvador and Costa Rica

Nov 20 and in the Lago Sport Park Following two appearances with each year touring the world retur The selections she will offer have

the next night conceit orchestras she was ignored ning to her Connecticut home only to not been announced but there is a

Her Esso Club appearance will be by the American musical world She prepare new concert material She possibility her famous Ave Maria
open to members and associate members continued studying giving occasional has appeared in nearly 400 cities on her Death and the Maiden and

Her Sport Park concert will be concerts for the next four years every continent and been acclaimed several Negro spirituals will be on

free and open to the public In 1930 Miss Anderson went to by every walk of life the program

The program on both nights is expected Europe where she appeared in Berlin King Gustav of Sweden presented Franz Rupp has played more than
to include the music which has and the Scandinavian countries with her with his governments Litteris 575 concerts with the famous contralto

made her famous music which she moderate success Three years later at Artibus medal she attracted Well known both here and

has sung before more than 5000000 she went back for a proposed three 75000 persons to a concert in Wash abroad as a concert pianist Mr Rupp

persons since she began her concert month tour caught the fancy of continental ingtons Lincoln Memorial after the who is celebrating his 11th anniversary
tours in 1935 music lovers and stayed for I Daughters of the American Revolu with Miss Anderson toured extensively

Miss Anderson was born in Phila two years tion denied her the use of Consti as a soloist until 1938 He

delphias Negro section the daughter Toscanini capped her success when I tution Hall because of her color five has accompanied many leading artists

of an ice and coal dealer She sang he heard her at the Mozarteum in colleges and universities have presented including Fritz Kreisler and the late

first in public at the age of six Salsburg Austria in 1935 The famed her with five honorary Doctor Emmanuel Feuermann When Miss

became a member of the church choir Italian conductor went to her and of Music degrees Anderson prepares for a tour she selects

and continued singing through high said A voice like yours is heard on Unusual for an operatic star she her songs with the aid of Mr

school ly once in 100 years Marian Anderson has 26 fan clubs One of her most Rupp Together they choose 60 songs

Because of her remarkable voice Sol Hurok an American impresa- avid supporters is the famous Finnish enough for four different programs

Dec 9 11 Vote To Decide

Race For 4 LEC Seats

Four Incumbents One Ex Member Three Newcomers

Are Nominated Petitions Expected To Swell List

Four incumbents a former member and three newcomers have been

nominated to compete for four seats on the Lago Employee Council

The election the second to be held this year is scheduled for Dec 9
VOL 14 No 23 PUBLISHED BY LAGO OIL & TRANSPORT CO LTD November 6 1953
10 and 11

Last July Lagos Staff and Regular employees elected eight repre

Cooperation At Work SOD Hygienist sentatives to replace the council

which resigned though it survived a non national nominating committee
Is Here Studying referendum which asked that the which included C L Raime V T

company withdraw its recognition Morgan T McDavid B Flanders and
Lago Assisting In Training Working Conditions Four of the men elected in July B J Jones

For the next two months Lago and the men of Cracking Light Oils Lago and other Standard Oil Com Last week two nominating committees Retira December 1

Finishing and the Laboratories in particular will be cooperating in the pany NJ affiliates improve put the four out going members

growth of oil refining in Chile Although many miles separated the working conditions on the December ballot along with
With a battery of measuring equipment Sydney E Howard former secretary Promer instructor di tempo com
assistance will be given in the training of Bernardo Papau a Chilean
hes been lecording the noise of the LEC Francis Elias Juan F pleto Eugenius A L Hassell lo
oil representative
dust fumes temperature and other Luidens and Federico E Acosta retira Dec 1 despues di 19 anja di
Whatever assistance Lago can be
to Mr Palau will add to the world possibly Venezuela he said The enviionmental factors which affect Mr Croes an Executive Office servicio den cual el a yuda estable

wide cooperation that has long been Chilean refinery includes a pipe still these conditions within the refinery clerk with four years of service Mr ce y desaroya programanan di

the undertaking of Lago and Standard for crude distillation provisions for His work is pait of a six-year-old Flemming an assistant operator in aprendiz y entrenamiento di em

Oil Company New Jersey thermal cracking and the necessary SOD project whose aim is to study Catalytic and Light Ends with over pleadonan

Just recently two compatriots of Mr finishing facilities working conditions within various re 10 years of service Mr Luidens an Sr Hassell un nativo di Saba a
Previously Chilean crude was exported fineries and then offer recommendations electrician A in Mechanical Electrical

Palau completed training at Esso gradua for di St Thomas College
Standards Everett Massachusetts for processing The majority based on the results of the with over 14 years of service
na Curagao na 1913 a recibi su cer
refinery of the crude produced went to a go study to better these conditions and Mr Acosta a tester B in the
Mr Palau arrived here Oct 19 and verment refinery in Uruguay Once throughout the Jersey organization Technical Service Department with tificate di meestro di school y e si

following an orientation period start the new refinery is completed the Continued on page 2 over 15 years of service are national guiente 18 anja el a traha como
crude will be in the Valpariso meestro y director di schoolnan na
ed his training in Cracking He will processed candidates
remain in Cracking one month then refinery and the finished products Mr Straughn an instructor A in St Maarten y Saba
Un el tabata director di
sold to private distributors tempo
spend approximately three weeks in Industrial Relations with over five
such as Esso Standard Oil Company school na St Johns Saba y na mes
Light Oil Finishing He will complete years of service Mr Elias a file
Chile The southern Chile oil fields tempo tabata duna les na un otro
his Lago training in the labs From clerk in Mechanical Administration
have been producing approximately school na Windwardside Bo mester
Aruba he will go to Boston Massachusetts with nine of service
over
years mira mi el recorda Merdia
five a ta
where he will take a course years Mr Howard instructor A in Industrial
an
mi tabata bula ariba mi cabai bieuw
Contiyiued on 2
in refinery instruments at the Fox page Relations with over five
Rosebud y corre mescos cu biento
boro Instrument Company When this
years of servica and Mr Emmanuel
stage of his training is completed he pa yega Windwardside na tempo pa
instrumentman A in Mechanical
Guarico 4th an
Engineer duna les tramerdia
visit another
to refinery
plans
Instrument with 24 of
over years service
rather that Mr Palau Na September 1934 Sr Hassell a
It is fitting
Lost On national candidates
Amuay Trip are non
should come to Lago to gain further bini Lago como un klerk den Instrument
In addition to the eight nominees
knowledge of the oil world He comes The lake tanker Guarico which Department Dos anja despues
the ballot will bear the names of el worde cambia seccion di klerk
a
to the worlds largest operating re left Aruba for Amuay at 20 minutes pa
petition candidates who secure 100 di Technical Service
Department
representative of alter Oct
finery as a a midnight Saturday 17
country just beginning in the field has reported the loss of 4th Engineer valid signatures within their na Ademas di su trabao di klerk el

of refining He is now training at W O Thompson en route tionality group Official petition tabata yuda sinja Ingles y reekmento
forms will become available Nov 7
the refinery that for many years has About 130 am Engineer Thomp na dos grupo di aprendiz Ora Com
in Committee Coordination Room 212
supplied much of Chiles kerosene son was seen on the poop deck by the pania a dicidi na 1938 pa establece
of the Industrial Relations Building
and fuel oil quartermaster He was not missed un Training Division den Industrial
Petition forms must be returned by
Mr Palaus company Empresa until just before the watch change Relations Department Sr Hassell a
Nacional del Petroleo is presently at 4 am 4 pm Nov 24 worde cscogi como promer instructor

having Chiles iirst reiinery constructed The ship was searched throughout The two national and two non di tempo completo di e school
The proposed 20000 barrels and was turned back to retrace the GEORGE WILKENING a Stand national candidates receiving the Pa e siguiente seis anja el a traha

a day plant is being built by the M course Two other lake tankers and ard Oil Development Co industrial largest number of votes will be como instructor y a yuda desaroya

W Kellogg Company near Valpariso the yacht Greyhound out of Oranje hygienist analyzer and with sound an octave level meter band elected for a two year term starting e programa di entrenamiento di

The new plant to be completed in stad joined the search but no trace two of the pieces of equipment Jan 1 1954 aprendiz El a adapta bukinan di sin

about a year will run crude from of the missing man was found with which he is studying working A de Robles was chairman of the ja pa cumpli cu necesidad di e school
the Tierra del Fuego fields in the He was well liked and in good conditions at Lago national nominating committee which tuma parti den testmento y busca

refinery will have to import some He was 30 years old unmarried Development band analyzer Company un cu di un e octave J Hodge D de Kort and S Hernan cambiando di compania
crude will be and had apa Na Januari 1945 Sr Hassell a wor
crude Our own sup been in the fleet for 15 ratonan cu cual el ta studia con des
plemented with crude imported from months dicionnan di trabao na Lago N P Dabero was chairman of the Continua na pagina 2

AKURA ESSO NEWS
November 6 1953

Com Cooperacion Ta Traha

A IRSJBA f3 N H A Blaize Writes

Lago ta Asisti den Entrenamento From Grenada

PUBLISHED EVERY OTHER FRIDAY AT ARUBA NETHERLANDS Di Un Representante di Chile
WEST INDIES BY THE LAGO OIL & TRANSPORT CO LTD An
encouraging note of
Printed by the Curafaosche Courant Curasao NW I health and
progress was recently received from

This means being safety conscious day in day out It means respecting cooperacion mundial cu hopi tempo azeta den parti sur di Chile ta pro As far as Mr Blaizes future is

the equipment you work with regardless of how long it has been since the ta remarcable di Lago y Standard duci ya ta cinco anja concerned he told of trying to or

accident ganize a new to install
last accident or near company
Oil Company New Jersey Recien Sr Palau Sra esposa y dos yiu ta
Many workers feel secure after completing accident free electricity in our small town
many They
years temente dos compalriota di Sr Palau biba na Valparaiso Despues di su
think they know their equipment so well nothing can happen This is false a completa entrenamento na refineria graduacion for di Universidad de There was street lighting some 10

security It opens the doors to accidents Unfortunately it often takes a di Esso Standard na Everett Massachusetts Concepcion na Concepcion Chile tres years ago but was dropped The new
serious accident to jolt those who are over confident back to reality plan I am working on is somewhat
anja pasa el a bai traha pa Empresa
The key to continuing safety is respect for the tools of your trade Respect Nacional del more elaborate
Sr Palau aki Oct 19 despues Petroleo Promer cu
a yega su
y He also stated that
goes hand-in-hand with observance of Lagos safety regulations One of the bishita inicial he hears about
den Caribe
di un periodo di orientacion el el a pasa
first things a new employee learns is how to use his equipment safely dos luna activities in Aruba through his
a cuminza su entrenamento den na e refineria di La Plata
During the early stages of his learning he is cautious he respects his equipment Argentina Su friends but his steady source of information
Estados
viaje Uni
Cracking El lo keda den Cracking un pa
Soon he becomes adept in all phases of his work It becomes second dos lo ta di is the Aruba Esso News
luna el ta of promer
despues
mas me
nature At this point the employee can proceed in one of two directions pasa He stated he was pleased to receive
He can continue working efficiently with the utmost respect and caution nos tres siman den Light Oils Finishing the News and that the mailing of the

or work with the feeling that nothing can happen to me I know every El lo completa su entrenamento Company bi weekly to annuitants

thing there is to know about my equipment Or does he ? The answer is no na Lago den laboratorio For di Aru Lago Assisting and others is one aspect of Company
ba el lo bai Boston Massachusetts
An employee who feels he knows all there is to know will take chances doings the average active employee
unda el lo tuma un curso den instru knows
nothing about He also
Chances dont pay off Sooner or later this employee causes an accident or expressed
mentonan di refineria na Foxboro Instrument
is involved in one simply because he thought he knew all there was to Continued from page 1 his delight in receiving The
Company Ora e fase aki
know Such an accident can be traced to lack of respect for his equipment Lamp publication of Standard Oil
di su estudio ta completa el tin in
Company New Jersey
No one can foresee equipment failure Refinery equipment is inspected tencion bishita un otro refineria Mr Palau his wife and two children
pa The former
Colony Service
regularly and defective or worn parts replaced as necessary When lifting live in Valpariso Following his Depart
Sr Palau bini refineria
a na e mas ment
employee served vice-president
operations take place in the refinery every precaution possible is taken to di mundo saber graduation from the University of as
grandi consegui
pa of the LEC for
safeguard the employee Even with extra inspections and precautions during di mundo petrolero como representante Concepcion in Concepcion Chile one term

the operation equipment failure can happen The employee who fails to di un terra cu a caba di principia three years ago he went to work for
recognize this and the equipment with which he is working invites
respect
Nacional
den tcrreno di refinamento di petroleo Empresa del Petroleo Prior H LVeira A Completa
trouble The man who becomes over confident something he should never Awor el ta recibi entrenamento to his first visit to the Caribbean

do exposes himself to possible injury na e refineria cu durante hopi anja area he spent two months at the Curso den Electricidad

Dont become over confident and take chances just because you have never nan a produci hopi kerosine y fuel refinery in La Plata Argentina His

suffered an accident in handling the same operation over the past five oil Chile trip to the United States will be his
10 15 years Dont become the employee who feels that he knows his job pa first Tres anja di estudio na Arubaanse

and equipment so well he doesnt have to worry about safety precautions Compania di Sr Palau Empresa Technische School a worde recompense

Regulations guiding the safe handling of equipment are not just for be Nacional de Petroleo actualmente ta siman pasa ora Henry L Veira di

ginners they are for everybody regardless of how long the employee has trahando promer refineria na Chile 101 Scooter Nobo Den Mechanical Department Electrical

ing the effect of noise and vibration Goslinga inspector di educacion den
BERNARDO PALAU of Chile began his refinery training in Cracking Sr
SOD Hygienist Working day or night depending He is shown center with left to rifiht D E Johnson L D McBurney Antillas Holandes a complimenta servicio den

upon the type of information he and M E Fisk three of the men who are assisting in giving Mr Palau Hassell pa su anjanan di

needs Mr Wilkening will also collect refining knowledge to take back to Chile when that countrys first educacion
Continued from -page 1 air samples from various areas Some refinery is on stream Tabata e momento mas feliz di mi

Dec 1 after 19 years of service in which he helped pioneer and develop jH '>?" Hbkv v C J iiy OwiBB With Travel Club

the companys apprentice and employee training programs

Mr Hassell a native of Saba was graduated from St Thomas College The ruins of Rome were the most

in Curacao in 1913 received his teachers certificate and for the IB mm sSBL wf iRPIH impressive thing I saw Miss Francis

Davis said her return to Aruba
next 18 years served as a teacher on
and principal in schools at St Martin following a 31 day tour of Great Bri

and Saba Kellogg Following tain and the Continent with the

At one point he was principal of Jersey Standard Travel Club
the school at St Johns Saba and Lago Hiring Policies The Coliseum the Pantheon the

taught at another school at Wind Catacombs were fascinating and re
waidside You should have seen me Supervisors for M W Kellogg markably well preserved she said on

he recalled At noon Id jump on my Co contractors on a Lago constitution completion of her 10000 mile trip

old horse Rosebud and ride like the project have arrived and which took her through the United

wind to get to Windwardside in time are employing workmen for the States to Holland Belgium Western

for the afternoon classes job Germany Austria Switzerland Italy
In September 1934 Mr Hassell The terms of their contract calls France England Scotland Wales and

came to Lago as a clerk in the Instrument for them to follow Lagos employment Ireland

Department Two years la policies that is Arubans The travel club is the easiest way
rv T ?
ter he transferred to the clerical section will be given first opportunity for HBBllFr1 VTfflBr f'if n-? gH for a person going for the first time
HENRY L VEIRA who recently completed a correspondence course in
of the Technical Service Depait available jobs to see Europe she said Im going
high voltage electricity is shown adjusting a pump switch in the new
ment the to start saving now for the trip the
black oil pumphouse at Snowpile
In addition to his clerical work he club plans to take to the Scandina

establish a Training Division within dont even have to worry about
the Industrial Relations Department Na Isla di St Vincent luggage You leave it in one hotel
H L Veira
Mr Hassell was chosen as the divisions Completes and pick it up in the next

first full time instructor Un electricista na St Vincent tin Course in Electricity Hygienista di SOD The people in each country she

For the next six years he served di gradici su bida na un empleado said were very hospitable

as an instructor and helped with the anterior di Lago kende despreciando Three years of study at the Aruba Ta Aki Investigando From Brussels where Miss Davis

development of the apprentice train peligro moital a subi un palo di luz Technical School paid off last week Condicionnan di Trabao secretary to Lago President J J

ing program He adapted text books trece e trahador for di conocemento for Henry L Veira of the Mechanical Horigan picked up the tour the club

to fit the programs needs took part abao y aplica respiracion artificial te Department Electrical when he members traveled mostly in large

in the testing and recruiting of new ora el a bolbe bini na su mes received his diploma for high voltage George Wilkening un hygienista buses with glass tops and sides or

El ta spera di completa su cstudio tion to group head B piping in
Queen Elizabeth Plans Six Month Tour pa Dec 3 December 1952 In March 1953 he

was made an engineer A Three

Those who think the rain gods have wax that the material no longer both male and female dancers gae months later he was promoted to sen

turned their back on Aruba may be served as an antiseptic to waid of interpretations in dance and song of Jersey Standard Affiliate ior engineer the position from which

interested to know that Aden where fungi and germs African West Indian and Latin Ame he received his Nov 1 piomotion

a 250000000 lefinery is being built rican life and culture The troupe has Opens Marine Fueling Mr Hamelers served with the

to replace Abadan had its last big Marie Jean Francois talented Trini Netherlands Armed Forces from

rainfall in 1881 14 inches Natives F W van Houten of Noordwyk dad dancer as its head Terminal at Dakar September 1939 to October 1945 He

disagree if it has been five or seven The Netherlands was walking along has Lago service of over 15 years
xxx
years since it last rained there Ame a beach in Holland recently when he
rican British and Durch interests are found in a bottle washed ashore a Marian Anderson who is slated to An affiliate of Standaid Oil Com Norwega Ta Cuida
sing heie Nov 20 and 21 won a pany New Jersey has opened a
building the plant 1500 miles south check made out to The Finder for
of the Suez Canal at the other end 1000000 British pounds 2800000 10000 prize for her singing excellence new ship fueling station at Dakar Su Nabegantenan

of the Red Sea and expect to be in Though the check was unsigned an She used it to set up a fund French West Africa it was announced

production under the Anglo Iranian address on the back revealed the which has alieady helped 47 young today Dakar is an increasingly im Un ehemplo com Norwega ta per

Oil Co one year from this month writer to be Maj John Evans of New singers get training It was a sympathetic portant bunkering point for shipping cura pa su nabegantenan a worde
in the South Africa trade
Pipelines will carry crude from ton Abbot England Mr van Houten group of fellow parishioners Europe constata na Aruba siman pasa ora

Muwait Qatar and probably from wrote to Maj Evans who replied he who helped the famous American contralto The marine installation designed un doctor di gobierno di Norwega a

Saudi Arabia had written the check and cast it get her start for high speed delivery of fuels yega aki pa acompanja dos marinero

adrift to entertain his three sons xxx directly from shore tanks to ship enfermo hiba nan terra
while vacationing at British bunkers is being completed at a cost
a coast Discontinuation of maiket and E hombernan a cai malo na lamar
The United States has increased resort of about 700000 by Esso Afrique
Ora Aruba
price guaranties has cut the number nan bapor a yega nan a
the postage on surface mail bound Occidentale SAF a Jersey Standard
worde den medio di
of acres planted in cotton in the tuma Hospital pa
outside the country to place but marketing affiliate Included in the
any Windward and Leeward islands K A Hoglund Captain di Lago Police
Mexico and Canada Air mail rates Outdoor posters urging safe driving project aie storage tanks with capa y consul honorario di Norwega

were left unchanged The boosts now appear on five large signs xxx cities totaling 233000 barrels for Capt Hoglund a avisa gobierno di

range from one to three cents depen throughtout the island The posters Queen Elizabeth and her husband Diesel fuel and bunker grade residual Norwega cu a pidi pa el arregla pa

ding upon the type of mail and its are sponsored by the five Esso dealers the Duke of Edingburgh leave Lon oil burned by steamers sashi pa e marineronan regresa pa

weight of Aruba as their contribution to safe don Nov 24 on a tour of the Commonwealth Dakar major French naval base Norwega Ora el no a logra percura

driving in Aiuba which is expected to last and colonial seapoit is strategically pa atencion medico durante e viaje

XXX through May 15 Theyll visit Ber located on the South and West Africa gobierno di Norwega a manda Dr

The Washington University School muda Jamaica Fiji Tonkin New trade routes Development of in Harald Stroem El a yega cu aero
of Medicine physicians are trying to One of the outstanding entertain
Zealand Australia Cocos Islands dustrial
and natural resources in plano tuma encargo di e dos pacien
develop a replacement for ear wax ment features in Curacao the past Ceylon Aden Uganda Malta and these areas since the war has boosted tenan y dia 28 di October el a sali cu
They found that persons living in few months was a group of Trinidad Gibraltar on the longest tour demand
ever for ship fuels at Dakar to nan na bordo di SS Willemstad cu
the tropics produced such little ear dancers The group made of taken British
up by a monarch more than 7000000 ban els a year rumbo pa Amsterdam

T

AKUBA ESSO NEWS
November 6 1953

Foundry s Cast n Vital Role

Formed To Supply Process Parts

Now Works For Entire Refinery

Jan G Cioes put aside his lifter picked form a coie and then placed upiight inside

up his heart and spoon and with practiced the hole cieated by the sleeve pattern

case marked out a gate Then with a gate Thiough the sand in the top of the flask

cutter he scooped out the sand smoothed Mr Cioes cut a gate through which the

the edges of the cut and moistened them metal would flow and fill the space not taken

from a water filled swab up by the coie Cooled taken out of the flask

Next he coated the gate with graphite and then lemoved the metal had become the

dusted off the excess and signaled that the sleeve

job was done He replaced the top of the The variations of this piocess are infinite

flaskf and the mold of the hot oil pump but all aie based on the foundry principle of

sleeve on which he had been working was filling a hole with molten metal

ready to be filled with molten metal Molding metals is a practice that dates

Mr Croes is a molder in the Mechanical fiom piehistoric times and was probably invented

Department foundry which each year casts in Asia By constant lefinement it

some 100000 pounds of metal into bubble has become a highly complex trade which

caps floor grids downflow pipes di ill enters the lealm of art in the casting of

handles and a host of other objects statues and other sculpture

The lifter the heart and spoon and the Castings produced in the Lago foundry

gate cutter aie thiee of the tools the lange in size fiom 1800 pound still pedestals

foundrys 14 workmen use in transforming to door keys Many of the items such as

a gioup of blue print lines into pieces of bubble caps aie turned out by the hundreds

equipment made of iron brass bronze or all year long Others aie one shot affairs
PATTERNS such as that of the pump impeller on which Joseph Maduro is woiking
aluminum for use throughout the refinery usually made in an emergency
at right are the heart of any foundry pioject Mr Maduro and E Paula left
Their work starts when a draftsman The foundry was created in 1934 to produce fiequently work to thousandths of an inch in the patterns and cores they make

makes conduit boxes for the Electric Shop
of the cylinder cover then painstaknigly mold requires extreme caution
water boxes for the powerhouses parts for
tamped more sand aiound it until the top of The positioning of the leinforcing rods
Machine Shop machines Elliot Strainers of
the sand and the pattern were even They and nails the repair of broken surfaces the
various sizes for the Piocess Department
then sprinkled the top with separating completion of details down to a few grains
ballast housings and piopellors for the
pump powder of sand requires extreme skill gained

Marine Department Choosing a cope or top of the flask they through years of training
To with the vaiied
keep up department placed it on the drag and inserted the pat Even more exacting is the preparation of

demands the pattern shop averages about tern of the top of the cylinder cover which molds for plaques grave markers and other

75 new patterns and coies each year repairs they surrounded with more carefully tamped decorative work which the foundry occa
its old and in slack turns out
periods
ones
sand leinforced with rods They then separated sionaly produces
cabinets tool boxes and similar equipment
the two halves and performed the Through the constant preparation of mold
for the Machine and other sections
Shop
delicate task of lemoving the patterns without ing sand cleaning of castings production of
World War II which disrupted the flow
disturbing the sand simple molds and other continuous operations
of leplacement parts from the United States
After inseiting nails to support the more keeps everyone busy most of the foundry
gave the foundry its biggest boost During
THE TOOLS Sifter swab ram fragile sections of the sand mold they dusted workeis lend a hand in pouring projects as
the war years 38 men worked two shifts each
heait and spoon lifter brushes the surface with graphite and cut the large as the cylinder covers
trowels day Now however some of the equipment it
gatecutters gates Then they rejoined the two halves With well grooved teamwork they heat the
once pioduced can be purchased moie economically
E HERMENTNAN Sifta baki clamped them together and the mold was ladle fill it with molten metal and carry it
ram heart cuchara lifter brush in the States and the foundrys staff
y finished by crane to the waiting molds where Mr
gate cutters cepilla and woiking houis have been cut back
This simple account of the sequence of the McGibbon supervises the pouring operation
Using virgin metals the foundry produces
work does not convey the skill the foundrys Once the metal is cooled the flask is
its own iion brass bronze and aluminum in
two top moldmakers bring to their task The opened the mold is broken away and the
equipment Hugo G McGibbon foundry foie a 2300 volt electiic furnace which will heat
separating of the 300 pound halves of the casting is ready to be machined and installed
man then sits down with Joseph Maduio or a 500 pound charge up to 3000 degrees

E Paula two patternmakers to study the Mr Maduio Mr Paula and Mr Trim

blueprint and decide how the equipment may mingham fiequently lequired to work with

best he cast in thousandths of an inch must have an

Mr Maduro and Mr Paula then retire to artists touch with the power and hand tools

their pine scented shop where usually fiom they use to build the wooden patterns and

white pine and mahogany they create an coies

exact replica of the equipment If the object Molding however is piobably the most

is solid such as a punch they turn out a spectacular operation within the refinery

model which represents only the exterior Mr Croes who has been with the foundry

If however the article is hollow such as 18 yeais and Humphiey McDonald a

porthole rings they produce models which foundry woiking for 15 yeais take a pile of

correspond to the interior and exterior of the sand and clay and fiom it pioduce massive

rings shape These models are needed to ballast pump housings for lake tankers or

make the final sand mold which shapes the light pallettes for bucks

following metal into the form of the object The molder usually does his woik by

The exterior version is called a pattern hahes then joins the two sections to form

the interior a core They are placed inside a the complete mold In piepaiing the mold he

form or flask which holds the sand Take must guard against heat explosion provide

for example the sleeve mold on which Mr reinfoi cement for the sand allow a clear

Croes was working channel for the flowing metal and anticipate

On their lathe Mr Maduro and Mr Paula a score of other potential difficulties

pective positions of vice chairman and threat to his own life climbed a utility

secretary pole brought the unconscious

Pieparing for the ensuing sports worker to earth and gave aitifical

year at the Spoit Paik the following respiration until he regained consciousness
Board members were named chairman

of steering committees Max A D Forbes a one time Storehouse

Kock basketball Heiman Figueira employee and now a law clerk
cricket Mr de Viies tennis and
in Kingstown was at woik when an
korfball Mateo Reyes Softball Jose office boy rushed in and said a line

LaCiuz baseball and Andries Geer man had been trapped in the wires

man football atop a pole across the stieet

Mr Foibes 28 ran to the spot and

NEW ARRIVALS found Kenneth Edwaids a Kingstown

Electric Co worker hanging head
BY DEFEATING Seagrams in the final two-out-of-three scries Chesterfield became the Lago Sport Paik A October 16 down with his feet twisted in the

Lea cue champions Members of the winning squaid are front row left to right Cahin Romney Antonio TUITT Thomas R Marine Launches wires The electric current had
Chiller Octaio Vanlleiningen Joseph Julian and Victor Benjamin standing left to right George Laveist A son Sherwin Sales
shocked him unconscious
Bill Baly Ricardo Vorst C Thomson Rex Thame Robert Sharpe Sylion Paul Donald Baly Camillc Baly LUYDENS Efegenio P Accounting
A Gerardo Galo
Raymundo Nicolas Benny Rombouts and Monte Maduro team sponsor The bat boy is Ronnie DAguiar son October 17 The former Lago worker climbed
FRANK Gregorio L Instrument a ladder which Mr Edwards had used
A daughter Deborah Lizabeth but at the top discovered he could
ANDREWS Peter Mech Yard A daugh
ter Ann Virginio not reach the victim Wrapping his

October 18 Forbes climbed to the top where he
BOYRARD Julio Esso Club A son disengaged the mans feet
swung
Sport Park Championship iSeries DAVID rranklin Emmanuel Kenneth- Mech Mason A son his body across his shoulders and

George Thadius climbed back down the pole
PHILLIPS Police
Alphonso Lago
A daughter Sandra Marlyn There he administered artifical

October 19 respiration until Mr Edwards regained
Play Off Victories Give Chesterfield A League VIEIRA ter Sheryl Ludolph Diane I Accounting A daugh consciousness Taken to a

Championship Julian Fans 19 In Final Game NAVA Jorge S Mech Pipe A daugh hospital the lineman was admitted
ter Mantza Isabel
GEERMAN Dominico Rec & Shipping for treatment of shock cuts and
A daughter Lucia Veronica minor burns Mr Foibes suffered
Chesterfield rode to the 1953 A League baseball championship on
October 20 minor cuts of the legs and feet A
the strong right arm of Joe Julian In brief that was the story of the KAMPERVEEN Geiaidus A L Electri
cal A Oswaldo Leonardo former Mechanical Department em-
play off series at the Lago Sport Park After losing the first son
game DE CUBA Louis D Mech Welding | ployee he left Lago in July 1950
to Seagrams 2 1 Chesterfield assigned Julian to pitching duties A son Ramiro Simon
FLAHERTY John F Rec & Shipping
He responded with brilliant performances that gave Chesterfield 51 A son Michael Norway Cares
ALDERS Alejandro P R Marine
and 21 victories and the Lago
A daughter Iola Marie
Spoit Paik championship October 21 For Its Sailors

he gave up a total of seven hits two Win League Titles QUASHIE Thomas E LOr A daughter An example of how Norway cares
luns and struck out 33 Seagiams Shirley Miranda for its merchant sailors developed in
MORGAN Manfred Colony Maintenance
batters He fanned 14 in the 51 A son Toussaint Eustatius- Aruba last week when a Norwegian
victory and closed the season with The Giants and Indians won the MC JANNET Charles R Cat & Light government physician arrived to take
championships of the Junior and Ends A daughter Dorothy Maria Te
19 stiike outs in the final game He tesia two ill seamen home

reached his peak in the last game B Leagues lcspectively The Junior October 22 The men were taken ill at sea
League was made of two divisions SEMPER Phillip Mech Pipe A son
up
He fanned batters in
Seagiams every Carl Edgar When their ships reached Aruba
inning but ths sixth and struck out each with four teams The October 23 they were hospitalized thiough ar
Giants winner of the Esso Division REEMNET Max R Mech Tin A son
the side in the thiid fouith and Stanley Miliaan rangements made by Lago Police
defeated the Local Jis
ninth GIEL Petius B LOF A daughter Irma Captain K A Hoglund honorary
champs of the Lago Division for Imaculada Maria
Postponed because of lain the SCHWENGLE Supriano Mech Yard Norwegian consul
final game of the two-out-of-three the league title A son Mario Roland Capt Hoglund notified the Norwe
series Oct 27 before The six team B League ended October 24
was played a gian government which asked that he
with the Indians in fiist ASINTO Marco B Cracking A daughter
large Spoit Paik gathering Sea place TO THE WINNERS went this Elka Josefita Altagracia secure homeward passage for the

grams touched Julian for its only followed by the Gravilanes handsome tiophy J V Friel in HERNANDEZ Alberto Mech Pipe men When he could not ai range for
A daughter Mirna
run of the game in the fiist half of dustiial relations manager makes PANTOPHLET Samuel A Mech medical attention duiing the trip the
the first inning A Pantophlet struck the piesentation to Benny Rom Machine A daughter Rafaela Andrea government sent Dr Harald Stioem

out to open the game George Whitfield three pitches were strikes with Whitfield bouts manager of Chesterfield October 25 He arrived by air took charge of the
STEELE Victor L Electrical
the final A
following Chesterfield daugh
walked and scored on successive taking a vicious cut at the last ter Cecelia Rebecca patients and with them left Oct 23
Mctory Seagrams
singles to right by A Jack and R and final pitch of ths 1953 Spoit oer October 26 for Amsterdam aboaid the S S Wil
Airindell Julian then walked C Paik baseball competition DUBERO Jozef Stoiehouse A daughter
lemstad
E GANADORNAN a recibi e tro Rostica Ludwina
Emmanuel but prevented further Seagrams 100000000 14 3 feo bunita aki J V Friel geicnte WALKER Ralph Storehouse A daughter He told officials here he has made

scoring by striking out M Edwaids Chesterfield Julian and D Baly OOOOOOllx D Pantophlet- 2 3 and 2 di Relaciones Industiial ta had e LAMPER Dolores Lorenzo Rhonda LOr A son Edwin as many as 15 trips a year to all

Seagrams held the lead until the Seagrams won the opening game aiiba Seagrams Antonet Dutch Police A daughter Sonia Johanna Hose

seventh when a Chestei field tally of the seiies 21 coming up with the DE CUBA Isaac P Rec & Shipping NOEL A daughter Claudius Barbara- Esso Matilda Dining Hall

tied the ball game With one out winning luns in the last half of the A daughtei Augustina Rufina FREDERICK Robert W Mech Yard
Calvin Romney and stole October 27 A son Desmond Anthony
singled second ninth inning Chesterfield opened the walked went to second infield
on an rOMPIER John T Marine A son Glen October 28
He held as Sylvian Paul flied scoring in the eighth on a lead off out and then came home on Pauls Leo GOEDBLOED Dr Christiaan Medical
out and then scored the PA Geiaido LOr A son Rudolph A daughtei Adiiana Lee
tying run on triple by Julian and a single by single

Ricaido Vorsts single Octavio Heiningen Errors opened the Seagiams only score was made by

Chestei field scored what pioved to doois for Seagrams in the ninth A i H Airindell who led off the sixth

be the winning lun in the eighth on Pantophlet got on when Raymundo with a single He moved to second on

heads up base lunning with an Nicolass cued on the play Pantophlet a walk to Jack and scoied on C

assist fiom Seagrams sloppy hand stole second and went to Emmanuels single Emmanuels was
ling of a loose ball Camille Baly thiid infield out R
on an Airindell one of thiee hits given up by Julian
flied out to open the inning Bill walked and ctole second With men on while he stiuck out 14

Baly followed with a single The second and thiid Augustine Warner
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Chesterfield
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B Baly bioke for second on the pick off Pantophlet and thiew wild Julian and B Baly G Duinkerk and C

fiist pitch Seagiams catcher C allowing both men to advance with Emmanuel

Emmanuel let the ball go through Pantophlet scoiing the tying lun Following the final game the piesentation

him for a passed ball When he le Airindell scoied the winning run moments of piizes was made by J V

covered he filed to second but B later when Julian Warners Friel industrial lelations manager

Baly had aheady made his tuin and replacement thiew a wild pitch He complimented the athletes pie
was on his way to third The second sent and all those who took pait in
Chesterfield
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basemans thiow to thiid was wild Seagiams 000000002 2 2 2 the Lago Sport Paik baseball competition

allowing Baly to scoie the winning ner D Julian Pantophlet and B and Baly C Emmanuel War on giving the fans an excellent

run baseball season
But it wasnt all over as far as Chesterfield 5 Seagrams 1

crowd to its feet in the ninth Pitching Julians pitching with the largest In Ladies Softball League

cautiously to protect Chester scoie of the seiies 51 Van Hein

fields one lun lead he walked C ingen his teammates two
gave a Queen Anne with two wins and no
Arrindell the first batter who immediately LAGO SPORT PARK affairs for the next year will be handled by Boaid
lun bulge in the first inning when losses has the best lecoid in the Lago
stole second Julian members shown at their turn over meeting Oct 27 They are left to
stiuck he
slammed double into left
a center Spoit Paik Ladies Softball League right Fred Pan is Jose La Cruz Max Kock Herman Figueira Hugo de
out C Jack and D
Pantophlet One scoring Romney and Paul Both men The undefeated team posted 95 and Viies Robeit E A Martin Mateo Reyes Damian Tromp Rajmundo
out away from the championship he had walked Chesterfield picked up 62 victories over the Aiuba Juniors Kemp Juan Briezen and Andries Geerman

walked A Pantophelt and then had two moie in the eighth on a triple by and Tropical Other league scoies
Arrindell and Pantophelt double Vorst MIEMBRONAN di Lago Sport Park Board proximo anja ta mun
pull a and a walk to Baly followed were Tiopical 15 Lucky Strike 3 pa e
steal behind him With men on by an infield en or that allowed both Oranjestad Stoie 15 Amstel 4 Ba stra aki durante nan reunion di cambio Oct 27 Nan ta robez pa drechi
second and third he threw thiee to Fred Pari is Jose LaCruz Max Kock Herman Figueira Hugo de Vries
men score Both teams
scoied luartc
14
ZHB 12 and Amstel 12
straight balls to Whitfield Robert E A Mai tin Mateo Reyes Damian Tromp Raymundo Kemp
His next single luns in the sixth Julian ZHB G
Juan Briezen y Andries Geerman

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AKUBA ESSO NEWS
November
6 193

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GUESTS of the Aruba Tourist Bureau these members of the Womens Club are pictured at the Lago Colony
Commissary about to board a bus for a day long tour of the island

Twenty one membeis of the Wo
mens Club weie guests Oct 22 of
LAGO employees were taken somewhat aback one day last month when
the Aiuba Tourist Bureau which took
in place of whai fingers railroad cais and trucks they saw two
women and a child coming up the No 1 Finger Pier They weie Mrs them on a day long tour of the island
Nora Heggim left wife of the second engineer on the S S Buccinum
their se en-month-old son Knuit and Mrs Else Andersen wife of the With Ernst Bartels secretaiy of
Buccinums chief engineer Like women anywheie Mrs Heggim and the bureau in charge the women
Mis Andersen went ashore to hunt for bargains in Arubas stores boarded a bus at the Lago Colony
while the Norwegian vessel was loading fuel oil for South America Commissary and tiaveled to the cliffs

swam
On the return trip they passed
thiough Oranjestad to Camashito
the site of some Canbe Indian remains
turned off to Mahuma traveled

n ew an d thiough Fienchmans Pass and
then took the Oranjestad San Nicolas
road back to the colony

UP FROM THE DEPTHS recently came this crab which veteran Aruba
Vi fishermen said they had never seen the likes of before Measuring close
to 11 inches from pincer tip to tail it was taken in a fish trap in 360
feet of water off Dakota Airfield by Clarence Delaney a part time
fisherman from Santa Cruz